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> [“As the sky behind the Eddy Match Factory across the river filled with light, the steady timbre of the water and rapids became sentences spoken in a soft female voice and Eileen accepted, without surprise, the presence of her mother's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-urquhart/as-the-sky-behind-the-eddy-match-factory-across-the-river-filled-with/)

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## More by Jane Urquhart

> [Longing for something that you once had is a mistake because the pictures in your mind are never the same as whatever it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-urquhart/longing-for-something-that-you-once-had-is-a-mistake-because-the/)

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> [“the low light entering the room from the west window always caused the large oval of the table to shine like a lake, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-urquhart/the-low-light-entering-the-room-from-the-west-window-always-caused/)

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> [“Old Eileen leaned forward in her chair, thrusting her face closer to the child who had been gradually approaching her. "Where is the centre…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-urquhart/old-eileen-leaned-forward-in-her-chair-thrusting-her-face-closer-to/)

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> [Art is a kind of mining," he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in the earth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-urquhart/art-is-a-kind-of-mining-he-said-the-artist-a-variety-of-prospector/)

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> [Racism is a destructive and artificially-manufactured element in the collective human psyche designed to fragment the natural desire of human beings to know and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-urquhart/racism-is-a-destructive-and-artificially-manufactured-element-in-the/)

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> [“As the sky behind the Eddy Match Factory across the river filled with light, the steady timbre of the water and rapids became sentences…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-urquhart/as-the-sky-behind-the-eddy-match-factory-across-the-river-filled-with/)

[Jane Urquhart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-urquhart/)

> [“The lake was a shield of beaten brass flung down in the valley under a full sun.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-urquhart/the-lake-was-a-shield-of-beaten-brass-flung-down-in-the-valley-under/)

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> [“She knew she was a purveyor of costume, of disguise, a fabricator of persona, one who touched only the protective surface, never the skin,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-urquhart/she-knew-she-was-a-purveyor-of-costume-of-disguise-a-fabricator-of/)

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> [“the boards of oaken floors polished to such a degree the furniture was reflected in them like architecture placed at the edge of vast…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-urquhart/the-boards-of-oaken-floors-polished-to-such-a-degree-the-furniture/)

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> [“How long, Klara wondered now, how long after the mortar set did the joy remain? When one embraces a moment of rapture from the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-urquhart/how-long-klara-wondered-now-how-long-after-the-mortar-set-did-the-joy/)

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> [“This was the way it was going to be then, this road she was going to have to walk. She would always be thinking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-urquhart/this-was-the-way-it-was-going-to-be-then-this-road-she-was-going-to/)

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> [Get drunk, Austin, have a love affair. It would be a tragedy to die and discover that you hadn't completely used up your body.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-urquhart/get-drunk-austin-have-a-love-affair-it-would-be-a-tragedy-to-die-and/)

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> [“Any work of art," said her grandfather,"must achieve sainthood before we set it free to roam in the world.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-urquhart/any-work-of-art-said-her-grandfather-must-achieve-sainthood-before-we/)

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